Hello readers,

Need an agent? I got these new agents names in my email today.

3 Agents Seeking Your Query NOW

Click on any name below to see the full mini-profile on the GLA Blog (with submission instructions). Good luck querying!

1. Mary Krienke of Sterling Lord Literistic

She is seeking: Mary represents literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and realistic YA that pays close attention to craft and voice. She is especially drawn to new and emerging writers who seek to push boundaries of form and content, and she responds most strongly to writing that reaches great emotional and psychological depths. She is equally interested in work that illuminates through humor or by playing with genre. Her other interests include psychology, art, and design.

2. Andrea Hurst of Andrea Hurst & Associates

This alert from established literary agent Andrea Hurst (Andrea Hurts & Associates): "I am reopening my submissions this summer to unsolicited queries from June 1 - September 1, 2014." This is a great opportunity for writers everywhere who are writing genres & categories that Andrea accepts. She is not always open to submissions, and wanted writers to know.

She is seeking: "I am looking for upmarket, book club women's fiction, commercial women's fiction/romance (contemporary or historical), young adult fiction, and most areas of nonfiction (authors with a substantial platform who have already developed a solid, highly polished proposal - this includes memoirs, health/wellness, business, self-help/personal growth, memoir, cookbooks, pet books, spirituality). As of 2014, we are now accepting middle grade contemporary fiction as well."

3. Renee Nyen of KT Literary

She is seeking: Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. "I'm always interested in YA historical fiction, mystery, sci-fi, and thrillers, but genre is not as important to me as strong prose and compelling characters."

Hello!

Good news for writers looking for an agent. I got this today in my inbox.

Unsolicited Submissions Wanted: Agent  Andrea Hurst Seeks Women's Fiction, Romance,  YA, Memoir and More This alert from established literary agent Andrea Hurst  (Andrea Hurts & Associates): "I am reopening my submissions this summer to unsolicited queries from June 1 - September 1, 2014." This  is a great opportunity for writers everywhere who are writing genres  & categories that Andrea accepts. She is not always open to submissions,  and wanted writers to know. More info below. Read more ...

Good Morning Readers!

Here's something I got in the mail- email - that can help in your script writing. In doing critiques for scripts with -- in drama, thriller, comedy-- I've noted that the character's relationships are weak. I've written pages of how to make them strong ad complex. If you have time and money check out the falling online webinar by David Freedman. He'll tell you much of what I say in critique and teach you even more. So check it out.

Romance and Chemistry Techniques: The Signature of a Great Writer Monday, June 9th at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Sale Price $59.99  REGISTER NOW Two Days Left to Save | Register Today   Relationships are a key component of almost every script.  Let world-renowned screenwriter, David Freeman teach  you the skills you need to achieve complex relationships  in your script. You may envision complex relationships between the friends, family members, and lovers in your script. But is that complexity really shining through? Don't miss this opportunity to study numerous specific techniques from David Freeman that make the relationships  between your characters interesting. Whether they involve  romance or not -- make your character interactions be one  of the most unforgettable aspects of your script. Make the   audience believe that two people are destined to become  lovers or friends. Simply having an "attraction" between two people is probably the weakest way to start a romance. There are MANY better techniques which you'll learn in this   webinar. You'll learn techniques for making the audience QUICKLY believe that two people are old friends or members of the same family. These techniques involve deftly creating credible, complex relationships. What you'll learn: Tools to create compelling relationships while still retaining  your voice as a writer. How to write layered, tangible characters. Ways to make your scripts compete at the highest level. This class is open to TV writers and movie writers of all levels at any and all stages of development of their idea. If you want to create gripping character relationships with a world class instructor, you'll love this webinar.

David Freeman   David Freeman is a screenwriter, and internationally sought screenwriting teacher.  A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America,  he has sold and optioned scripts and ideas to Sony  Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, and other major film and television companies. He works half time for News Corp developing television dramas. He has taught screenwriting and script development  not just to writers around the world, but at Pixar,  Disney, to many executives of the BBC, at various film studios in China, and to many other film and  television companies around the world.  REGISTER NOW

Hello, Readers.

Here's something for those of you who are interested in writing TV shows and movies for children. I got this in my inbox today.

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Join Screenwriters University for:

Writing For Children's TV
June 5 - July 3, 2014

Start Date: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Tuition: $179.99

Register Now

 
This foundational course starts with the basic ABCs of writing
for daytime animation. From Animaniacs, to Batman, to Cars
 Toons-and beyond, Daytime Animation paints a landscape
of unique worlds with unique rules. How is writing for daytime
cartoons traditionally different than writing for live-action,
primetime animation, or an animated feature? What can
carton mice like Pinky and the Brain do that even Superman
can't? Why can the Animaniacs climb all over Bill Clinton,
but Batman can't get near him? Why can you create scores
of new characters for some animated shows, but maybe not
 for one animated by Pixar? What's the difference between a
 great story idea and a great story idea that will work for a
 specific show? -First steps into that Bat (fat cat, cartoon rat,
run-off-a-cliff-tread-air-and-KERSPLAT) Cave starts here.
������Through online lectures, animation watching,
 written assignments, and optional exercises, this course
supplies a cartoon-writing utility belt of understanding how to
write for Daytime Animation programming.

Course Outline: Session 1: The Foundational Foundation Session 2: Decoding The Animation Show. (Decoder Ring optional) Session 3: Springing Springboards. Outlining outlines. Session 4: Go Ahead, Make a Scene. In this online writing course you will learn: Foundational distinctions key to writing daytime animation. Shot breakdown techniques required for the medium. How to decode existing shows to write for them effectively. How to create story springboards and expanding them. An introduction to daytime animation scene writing. All of Screenwriters University's workshops are designed to fit into even the busiest of schedules. The workshops have no set meeting time. You can sign in and read lectures, complete and submit assignments, and participate in discussions on a timetable that fits your needs. This workshop  will consist of four, one-week sessions. Each session includes an online  lecture as well as a writing assignment that will be submitted to the instructor for private review, along with various additional creative exercises and  supplements. Student work can also be posted for group review and feedback.   Throughout the workshop you will be able to participate in asynchronous  lecture discussions, and you're encouraged to take advantage of your  classmate's feedback by posting the self-directed writing exercises. Register Now    Writing for Children's TV with Ralph Soll With over twenty years experience as a writer, Ralph has written, developed and had original material optioned by  Universal, Sony, Warner Bros, Disney and others. Credits include The Tick, Animaniacs, The Mask animated series, Dave the Barbaian,   Power Rangers and more. He has taught writing at NYU, UCLA and Columbia College  Hollywood. Register Now

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Hello, readers!

I got some articles here for you to read. They came in an email today from Script magazine.

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Behind the Lines with DR: Criticism and the Dangerous Game
Doug Richardson is a big proponent of criticism, be it constructive or merely loud and
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The Selling Your Screenplay Podcast: An Interview
With ScreenCraft.org co-founder John Rhodes
Ashely Scott Meyers talks with John Rhodes, co-founder of ScreenCraft.org, who
worked in development for several years.
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UPCOMING SCREENWRITING EVENTS for May! Screenwriters University: Classes are through an online platform that you can access anytime. There are weekly assignments to keep up with, but for the most part, you can follow at your own pace. Storytelling, 5/29 Beginning Feature Film Writing, 5/29 Creating High Concept Screenplay Ideas, 5/29 Mastering the Essential Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, 5/29 Advanced Television Rewriting Workshop, 5/29 Screenwriting Webinars How to Structure a Feature Comedy Film That Sells, 5/28 Writing Set Pieces that Can Make the Most of Your Screenplay, 5/29 How to Structure a Screenplay – In Defense of “Formula” Multiple Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Erik Bork (Band of Brothers) defends SAVE THE CAT and other story "paradigms" as helpful tools, but not panaceas. Click to Continue Specs & The City: The Threshold Guardian Archetype and ‘The Princess Bride’ Brad Johnson explores how the archetype of the Threshold Guardian impacts  your story, and how you can utilize this archetype to create a more engaging screenplay. Click to Continue 5 Reasons Screenplay Story Structure is Important and  FREE Story Structure Tips Download Whether you write a story or a screenplay, it’s always advisable to work out the plot ahead of time so you can discover the best way of telling it to not only appease the reader, but also to engage your audience. Write a story  that wins over your audience with our FREE story structure guidance from  the experts. Click to Continue Improvising Screenplays: Writing Screenplays from  the Height of Your Intelligence Improvisational actor Brett Wean reveals how respecting the audience's intelligence can help you write more dramatic, suspenseful screenplays that sell. Click to Continue Creating Characters: The Behavioral Paradox Behavioral Paradox Theory ensures your hero is complex and interesting. It ensures your hero feels human because the concept is seeded in human  nature. Guest blogger Benjamin Broomfield explains. Click to Continue Jeanne’s Tuesday Screenwriting Tips: 7 Reasons to Shut Up & Listen In Jeanne's Screenwriting Tips, she speaks about the importance of listening. In a world that thrives on collaboration, having great listening skills is essential to your career and your writing. Click to Continue Write Your Feature Film in 6 weeks The world of the feature film is booming and you are gushing with ideas.  Screenwriters University's Write Your Feature Script in Six Weeks will give  you the tools to get the ideas out of your head and into a completed screenplay  by introducing you to the methods that professional screenwriters use to write  under deadlines. Don't waste your time with wrong turns that could eat up weeks or months. The expert guidance offered in this course will help you see the big  picture of your story even while you are deep in the trenches of writing. By the  end of this workshop, you will have a first draft of a feature length screenplay. Click to Register Learn How to Create Dynamic Characters Actors Want to Play With Our FREE Webinar! To increase your odds of getting produced, you need to attract top talent who will put an audience in the seats. Creating characters that actors want to play  is a must. In our FREE Creating Dynamic Characters Webinar, you’ll learn how  to create and develop characters from screenwriter and Editor of Script Magazine,  Jeanne Veillette Bowerman. Click to Continue Get Your FREE Screenwriting Downloads As our gift to our loyal readers, ScriptMag is giving away  FREE Screenwriting Downloads! Check back often, as we offer new ones each month. The filmmaking industry has a certain expectation of not only how  a script for a movie or TV show is written but also of how to market  your script and yourself. In our FREE downloads, you’ll receive expert  advice on how to create a logline, how to structure an outline, TV writing, and tips on how to move your plot forward using your character’s inner journey, and more! Get your FREE DOWNLOADS today! ****************************************************** Here is the list of my fees again. Some one sent an email stating the website did not show my fees. So at the end of every blog post I'll show my fees. Edits:  $48.00  (proofread for scripts) Critique :  $58.00 ( for scripts) Query Letters :  $28.00 (scripts/books): Synopsis :  $38.00 (script/books): Edits for Books:  $90.00 Critiques for Books:  $125.00 Some people request edits and critiques together. If a writer wants both, to me this says the writer is not completely confident his or her script is ready. So I  recommend getting the critique first. Use the critique to redo the script. Once the script is just right, then request the edit. However, there are script writers who insist on having both an edit and critique together.  So I offer an edit and critique combo at discount. Edit &Critique Combo Discount: $76.00   This is a discount savings of $30.00 All payments are received by Paypal. If you cannot make Paypal payments you may mail payments in the form of cashier checks or money orders. NO personal checks If you are interested in my services feel free to contact me at ahicks4298@q.com Phone: (360) 696-4298 There's nothing like a good deal. 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Hay, people!

Here's something great for you. I got this in an email today. Check it out.

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Join Us As Chris Soth Analyzes
X-Men: Days of Future Past
With The Mini-Movie Method!

In this FREE Teleclass, Chris is going to give away the secrets to his acclaimed Mini-Movie Method -- The same step-by-step process he used to create and sell his screenplay for $750K!

As he does, he'll show the deeper structure of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which comes out Friday, May 23, 2014.

Register For Free TeleClass

In this rare, LIVE phone interview, I’ll be asking Chris to spill the beans on EACH of the eight sequences, or “Mini-Movies”, that make up a successful screenplay – including:

• All 8 Mini-Movies...and we'll breakdown the movie X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  
• The two vital ingredients you need to create tension -- the key to an extraordinary screenplay.
  
  
• What MUST happen in Act One for the rest of your story to succeed.
  
  
• How to avoid the typical writer’s block of Act 2 by breaking it down into 4 Mini-Movies.
  
  
• How to leave the audience completely satisfied with your ending.

PLUS, I’ll take one of YOUR loglines and have Chris create the entire movie right on the call!

Once you hear the details of the Mini-Movie method, you’ll never get stuck on structure again.  But please register quickly, there are only a limited number of spots available for this call. 

I'd love for YOU to be one of those people who gets to join us.  Here are the details:

Date:  Sunday, May 25th at 12:00 pm (noon)
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Once you discover how easy this is, you’ll never go back!

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President, ScreenwritingU.com

P.S. After you register for the class, we'll give you complete instructions on how your logine could become one of the lucky ones that Chris gives the MMM treatment to!

 

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Here is the list of my fees again. Some one sent an email stating the website did not show my fees. So at the end of every blog post I'll show my fees.

Edits:  $48.00  (proofread for scripts)

Critique :  $58.00 ( for scripts)

Query Letters :  $28.00 (scripts/books):

Synopsis :  $38.00 (script/books):

Edits for Books:  $90.00

Critiques for Books:  $125.00

Some people request edits and critiques together. If a writer wants both, to me this says the writer is not completely confident his or her script is ready. So I  recommend getting the critique first. Use the critique to redo the script. Once the script is just right, then request the edit.

However, there are script writers who insist on having both an edit and critique together.  So I offer an edit and critique combo at discount.

Edit &Critique Combo Discount: $76.00   This is a discount savings of $30.00

All payments are received by Paypal. If you cannot make Paypal payments you may mail payments in the form of cashier checks or money orders. NO personal checks

If you are interested in my services feel free to contact me at

ahicks4298@q.com

Phone: (360) 696-4298

There's nothing like a good deal.



Film script format, writing film scripts, screenwriting services, coverage service, screenplay formatting margins, screenplay writing, screenplay format example, Search terms: screenplays, screenwriting service, edit and critique service, writing screenplays, screenplay format, loglines, query letter, film scripts, movie scripts, screenplay format, screenplay synopsis, script synopsis, treatment, proofreading service for writers, novels, writing services, fiction writing, film script format, writing film scripts, screenwriting service, coverage service, screenplay critique service, screenplay format margins, screenplay writing, screenplay format example, free writing tutorials,   script consultant, screenwriting jobs, film production companies

 

 

 

 

Need Help With Your Screenplay?

Summer is approaching. People will be writing. If you need help with a script or book or short story feel free to inquire about services.


I need help!

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Here is the list of my fees again. Some one sent an email stating the website did not show my fees. So at the end of every blog post I'll show my fees.

Edits:  $48.00  (proofread for scripts)

Critique :  $58.00 ( for scripts)

Query Letters :  $28.00 (scripts/books):

Synopsis :  $38.00 (script/books):

Edits for Books:  $90.00

Critiques for Books:  $125.00

Some people request edits and critiques together. If a writer wants both, to me this says the writer is not completely confident his or her script is ready. So I  recommend getting the critique first. Use the critique to redo the script. Once the script is just right, then request the edit.

However, there are script writers who insist on having both an edit and critique together.  So I offer an edit and critique combo at discount.

Edit &Critique Combo Discount: $76.00   This is a discount savings of $30.00

All payments are received by Paypal. If you cannot make Paypal payments you may mail payments in the form of cashier checks or money orders. NO personal checks

If you are interested in my services feel free to contact me at

ahicks4298@q.com

Phone: (360) 696-4298

There's nothing like a good deal.



Film script format, writing film scripts, screenwriting services, coverage service, screenplay formatting margins, screenplay writing, screenplay format example, Search terms: screenplays, screenwriting service, edit and critique service, writing screenplays, screenplay format, loglines, query letter, film scripts, movie scripts, screenplay format, screenplay synopsis, script synopsis, treatment, proofreading service for writers, novels, writing services, fiction writing, film script format, writing film scripts, screenwriting service, coverage service, screenplay critique service, screenplay format margins, screenplay writing, screenplay format example, free writing tutorials,   script consultant, screenwriting jobs, film production companies